Sure! Also consider collaborating with an artist on Newgrounds!

http://www.newgrounds.com/collab/browse/programmer

What you want can be found easily on www.fiverr.com

Lots of people from all over the world offering pixel art and graphic design services for as little as $5. I can recommend a few for you:

http://www.fiverr.com/grigoreen/create- ... -pixel-art

http://www.fiverr.com/katuen/pixel-you- ... animate-it

http://www.fiverr.com/luisilustra/draw- ... -character

And there are many more artists there with a variety of styles (most vector graphics rather than pixelated)

I think you're thinking the wrong way... The trick is to animate the background, not the player, in such scenes.

Well, dude, link us the game so we can try it out!

Looks awesome! One to watch, for sure!

What are you trying to achieve here exactly? Why not start with basic platformer movement and add complexity later on?

Anyway, here: https://www.scirra.com/manual/92/custom-movement

If you haven't already read through that, that's probably the first place to start.

In any case, I think you should go for the game that gets you more excited. As an indie, our games have to be selfish. We need to make games that WE love first, or your one-man-team will eventually fall apart due to disinterest and boredom.

You should know JSON or XML too, I think. JSON is easier.

Sounds like what you want is more of a choose your own adventure game. Such a game is very simple to do in C2. In fact, it's so basic that I kind of suspect you have little to no experience at all with C2 or programming. If that's the case, I'd suggest starting with whatever beginner tutorials you can get your hands on (and there are PLENTY). Play around with the example .capx files (visible when you create a new project). After you've gotten through a few tutorial games and understand the basics of arrays, variables, etc., it should be fairly clear how you can make such a game (and many others).

Addendum: It's easier on C2 than elsewhere.

And where there's javascript there are ways for you to save individual account data to a server/database. Of course if you're new to making commercial games and you want to make such a game, you've got a long road ahead of you, but to say it can't be done is not the way forward. Instead, try asking "How can I do this?" rather than "This isn't possible, right?"

If you are not a programmer you might want to consider picking it up, though, for such an ambitious project. Look into the javascript SDK, by the way. That's probably the best place to start. Well, the best place to start would be in making the game. Then if you have a prototype you can start adding those social features you were talking about.

Make a really awesome game first. There are websites where you can sell the rights to your game to other companies and they will promote it for you. https://www.fgl.com/ is probably your best bet at getting started!

Which requirements are you referring to?

To answer your question, it's very easy.